How does btrfs fit into that? It deals with storage pool / volumes, but it's still a filesystem.

How does btrfs fit into that? It deals with storage pool / volumes, but it's still a filesystem.

Or is it a too focused / advanced topic for this article?

Or is it a too focused / advanced topic for this article?

[[User:Karol|Karol]] 19:05, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

[[User:Karol|Karol]] 19:05, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

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:Information about various filesystems has been moved into a separate article [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Partitioning&oldid=117942#Considerations since the first version of this article]. [[Btrfs]] has even its own article, so we can sing its praises there.

SSD?

Why does this article refer specifically to SSD?

Because it is new and need some special treatment. -- Fengchao (talk) 23:47, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Minimal partition sizes?

Please add the minimum sizes that are required to install Arch Linux distributions. (Does it vary much arch to arch?) I have installed Arch Linux ARM on the 512 MB flash of a Marvell Kirkwood SoC. Now I'm working with an Atom x86 system with 8GB to 16GB total storage. What are the minimum number (names) and sizes required for the O/S partitions? For my embedded systems, I usually separate the data partition from the O/S partition, and maybe I have a separate /var partition. But I do not typically have a separate /boot partition, and I try to make all but the data partition as small as possible.

Needed size depends on what packages are you going to install: do you need base-devel, do you need X etc. My current setup with X, graphical web browsers, the whole base-devel group, python, python2 etc. takes up just 3 GB on / (I don't have a separate /var).

The minimal required packages will vary depending on what filesystem do you have installed etc., but if you install just the base group and remove the packages you know you don't need (e.g. reiserfsprogs if you don't use reiserfs) you should have a lean setup. You shouldn't create too tight partitions, always try to provide enough headroom for some unexpected situations. -- Karol (talk) 22:56, 23 May 2013 (UTC)